Carlo bernardi tintoretto biography

Italian painter (–)

For other uses, see Tintoretto (disambiguation).

Jacopo Robusti^[a] (late September or early October ^[2]&#;&#; 31 May ), best known as Tintoretto (TIN-tə-RET-oh; Italian:[tintoˈretto], Venetian:[tiŋtoˈɾeto]), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school.

His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed il Furioso (Italian for 'the Furious').

His work is characterised by his muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.^[3]

Life

The years of apprenticeship

Tintoretto was born in Venice in His father, Battista, was a dyer – tintore in Italian and tintor in Venetian; hence the son got the nickname of Tintoretto, "little dyer", or "dyer's boy".^[4] Tintoretto is known to have had at l